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Dunno. I haven't had a haircut in 8 months!

I always booked appointments for 6-7pm after my husband got home from work. Can he ever get home just a little earlier?

Or maybe you can arrange for a trade-off day with one of your mom friends? She could watch your LO for an hour or two while you have an appointment and you could do the same for her on another day?

Also, there were a couple of random times that my SIL or MIL came over to spend time with my son so I scheduled an appointment during those times as well. Otherwise, we had no help either.

I hire a sitter that we use for date nights and have her come for an afternoon every now and again so I can take care of stuff.

Is it possible to get a babysitter for a morning per week, maybe two? I WOHM, but DH and I were discussing that I would have probably needed that if I had continued to SAH. My DH also works long hours and we are without local family, so I totally relate.

I make my dentist & eye appointments on days my husband is off work -- like odd holidays that he has off but everyone else is open.

My hair appointments in the evening or on the weekends. Same with him!

What about getting your haircut on the weekend?

I bring LO! You'd be surprised how many women bring their kids in strollers to the salon I go to. If that doesn't work out, I go on the weekend when DH is home.

I just got a haircut! Dh has mondays and tuesdays off so he watched baby in the car while I got cut and foil. It was awesome! I just plan to do things with dh. If your so has Saturday off can you get cut then?

Will she hang out in the stroller? You need to start a babysitting coop with mom friends! My DH doesn't work long hours so I can con him into coming home, which doesn't help you any!

For dentist appts I schedule dh's and mine one after the other so one sits with lo while the other is in with the dentist. For haircuts and stuff, I'm lucky that my husband is home most afternoons do I can just go. If he wasn't, I'd drop lo off with my parents for an hour or two.

@Foodnerd81: I have the same situation. Which is why I didn't get a hair cut until 8 months pp! I had to schedule an evening appt and make DH come home a little bit earlier. But our bedtime is later than yours so I could still put LO down. Does your LO take a bottle, maybe your DH can put her down for one night? Or I went to get a bang trim once on the weekend when he was home.
I finally went to the dentist yesterday and needed my sister to watch LO. Otherwise, I'd have to do the same thing and make DH leave work early one day.

We haven't found a sitter - there just hasn't been something I felt was important enough yet to look for one.

I'm a WOHM and have to schedule all that stuff during the weekends. It stinks to spend weekends doing errands instead of playing with my LO, so I end up with very very infrequent haircuts lol.

My Mom was a SAHM and when I was on maternity leave she talked my face off about her old "mommy co-op" and kept asking me repeatedly if I had one in NYC.

All of the SAHM's in the neighborhood would take turns babysitting when a Mom had to run errands during the day, while husbands were at work and babysitters were at school. You would log the hours you either used someone else for babysitting or babysat for others and as long as it evened out every month no one had to pay.

It's not really something that would work in NYC since first of all I don't even live close enough to my friends who have kids to be able to drop them off and second all of the moms who do live nearby are rich enough that they don't need the co-op. But it could work in the right situation!

I take him! He has gone to tooth cleanings and to my GYN annual in the past week! he's also been to the dermatologist and to the hair salon
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